Archive: August 2017

Shutterstock / Futurism Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. OpenAI has made an eyebrow-raising claim: that teen users can talk to ChatGPT about suicide and other harmful topics for hours before the chatbot notifies their parents. The admission came amid an investigation

Credit: Vienna University of Technology An old puzzle in particle physics has been solved: How can quantum field theories be best formulated on a lattice to optimally simulate them on a computer? The answer comes from AI. Quantum field theories are the foundation of modern physics. They tell us how particles behave and how their interactions can be described. However, many complicated questions in particle physics cannot be answered simply with pen and pap

Text generated by artificial intelligence often has a particular vibe that gives it away as machine-generated, but it has become harder to pick out those idiosyncrasies as the tech has improved. We may be seeing a similar evolution of generative AI audio. Google has announced a new AI audio model called Gemini 3.1 Flash Live—as the name implies, it’s designed for real-time conversation. It’s rolling out in some Google products starting today, and developer

Starlink is a satellite internet service that lets you connect to the internet anywhere simply by setting up an antenna. A new “Mini 2,” capable of running for up to 4.5 hours on battery power, has now been introduced. Starlink | Mini 2 https://starlink.com/mini-2 Introducing Mini 2, the next-generation portable Starlink. Get up to 4.5 hours of connectivity on a single charge with the quick-swap battery, or plug in with USB-C.With built-in Wi-Fi, all you n

(Photo=Google) After using AI to find weaknesses in RSA encryption, Google has now mathematically proved that Signal messenger’s actual encryption code satisfies its core security conditions. As OpenAI and Anthropic continue to unveil their AI research achievements in cryptography and mathematics, Google is also broadening the scope of AI applications from cryptanalysis to security verification of real-world software. Google DeepMind announced on the 10th

As the first part of the article showed. The experience of previous technological revolutions can be reduced to four conclusions:automation really does eliminate individual operations, jobs, and sometimes entire professions;employment grows only when a price reduction brings enough new buyers or creates a market that did not previously exist;new jobs most often appear outside the automated operation—in infrastructure, implementation, maintenance, monitorin

On Wednesday, US government officials removed a Chinese AI search tool that was briefly deployed on the Federal Register website, Reuters reported. The change came after social media users noticed an apparent contradiction: The National Archives was using one of Alibaba’s Qwen AI models, even as top US law enforcement claimed that such models illegally copy US frontier models. Earlier this month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) named Alibaba amon

On November 11, the Cabinet Office announced that the email addresses of more than 60,000 users of the various email magazines it publishes had been leaked. The cause was unauthorized access to the email delivery service provided by ARARA. There is also a possibility that information such as names and gender entered when registering for the email magazines was leaked. From the Cabinet Office’s news release The total number of leaked email addresses was 60,

@ishisaka(Tadahiro ishisaka)Programming Notes — November 11, 2026ProgrammingCloudAIEngineer0Posted at 2026-11-10TAG40@@TAG42@@TAG44 As usual, here is a curated selection of technical news and articles I found online today that personally caught my attention. I’d be happy to hear your opinions or any additional information in the comments. Programming .NET 11 Microsoft has announced the release of “.NET 11.” This release comes with two years of support as S

@DnD-inc(DnD Inc.)Tokyo Shoko Research: Corporate Data Breaches in 2026 Set an All-Time High in October | Three Steps to Review Customer Data Management in Outsourced Web SystemsAIGenerative AIOperational EfficiencyDXSmall and Medium-Sized Enterprises0Posted at 2026-11-11 Tokyo Shoko Research: Corporate Data Breaches in 2026 Set an All-Time High in October | Three Steps to Review Customer Data Management in Outsourced Web Systems This article is an edited

The startup, which raised $5.5 million in July, is positioning the ring as a controller of sorts for both AI and non-AI apps. The company previously made Mirage, a three-key controller that let you invoke buttons based on the app on your Mac’s screen. For instance, if you were on a Google Meet call, you could map keys to camera on/off, mic mute/unmute, or to leave the meeting. Aina has baked in lessons from that device to create the new ring, which it’s si

We’ve designed a method that encourages AIs to teach each other with examples that also make sense to humans. Our approach automatically selects the most informative examples to teach a concept—for instance, the best images to describe the concept of dogs—and experimentally we found our approach to be effective at teaching both AIs

We’ve developed an energy-based model that can quickly learn to identify and generate instances of concepts, such as near, above, between, closest, and furthest, expressed as sets of 2d points. Our model learns these concepts after only five demonstrations. We also show cross-domain transfer: we use concepts learned in a 2d particle environment to solve tasks on a 3-dimensional physics-based robot.